Lifter poe stove-covers



UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

B. R. HATHAWAY, OF MORMON ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.

LIFTEB. Fon sTovE-covERs.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 31,541, dated February 26, 1861.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, BRADDocK R. HATHA- WAY, of Mormon Island, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Cover-Lifter for Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a erspective' view of a stove top, with the bri ge plate and circular covers of a stove. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lifter, with a portion of its ,handle broken off.

Similar letters of reference indicate correp sponding parts in both figures.

This invention is an improvement in lifters for removing or replacing stove top covers, and the bridge plates on the stove top, by which improvement the covers may be moved, either one at a time or both together, or the bridge plate and one or both covers may be moved together.

This invention is a new and improved tool for moving the circular covers which are used on `stove tops; and if desirable the bridge plate on which one half of the covers rest may be moved from the stove top, or placed on the top either when hot or cold.

The object of the invention is to facilitate the 4removal of these plates when they are hot, and to furnish a tool which will be convenient to use, and with which two or three plates may be safely moved from the stove or placed on the stove at the same time.

My invention consists in the employment of a curved tongue, and a lifting prong combined, and attached to a suitable handle .in such a manner that the tongue will serve in conjunction with the prong to lift the bridge plate and two circular covers together, or singly, if desired, as will be hereinafter described and represented.

In the drawings, A is the handle of the improved lifter, and B, C, are the liftin parts which are suitably secured to the end of this handle, or, if desirable, the handle and its lifters may be made of cast-iron and the whole/may be cast in one piece. The prong B is a curved piece of metal projectlng out from the end of the handle, and curved downward, as represented in both figures of the drawings. The end or point of this prong B, is beveled, so that it will enter the depressions which are cast in the plates D,E,D,and so that either one of these olates may be lifted by the prong without the other with the same facility as with the ordinary lifters. Over the prong B, projects out a curved wire tongue C,which is a strong wire rod bent as shown in the drawings, and the two ends are brought together and secured in the socket in the handle. This tongue is only wide enough to project a short distance over the edge of each cover D, when the tongue B, is placed in the recess in the bridge plate E; and this tongue projects out some distance over the end of prong B.

To use this little tool for lifting the two plates D, D, and the bridge plate E, the prong is placed in the depression in the bridge plate and with the tongue pressing hard on the two covers D, D, the three plates may be lifted ofi' and laid away carefully, or it will be seen that a much firmer hold can be had on the plates if removed one at a time than with the lifters hitherto used.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as a new and improved article of manufacture, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The lifter for stoveI plates, herein described, consisting of a curved prong B, and tongue C, comblned and secured into the end ofa suitable handle as set forth.

B. R. HATHAVVAY.

Witnesses:

E. WooLsoN, D. C. WILcox.

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